Clothes-pin.



No. 762,494. PATENTED JUNE 14, 1904.

e. B. SAWYERS.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLIOATION FILED 00124, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES iatented June 14, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,494, dated June 14, 1904:.

Application filed October 24, 1903.

. YERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bidwell, in the county of Gallia and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Clothes- Pin, ofv which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to clothes-pins, and has for its object to provide a novel means for supporting clothes upon a line.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby one or more pieces may be supported.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of an article held to a line by pins constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the pin detached. Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of of the pin, and Fig. 4L is a view in side eleva tion of the pin.

The reference nunieral 1 designates the clothes-line of any suitable material, such as wire or rope and upon which the clothes-pin is supported. The pin is preferably constructed of a single piece of wire and may be formed by bending the strand intermediate its ends, as at 2, so that the strand on either side of the bend may be folded to form alining but diverging arms 3 and 4. The arms, 3 and ,4 are respectively bent intermediate their end's,as at5 and 6, to form depending por-, tions 7 and 8, the portion on each arm being in alinement with the opposite one and diverging with its respective arm, so that substan- Serial No. 178,446. (No model.)

tially inverted triangular spaces are formed between the arms and their depending portions between which the cloth may be socured. One of the depending portions is provided with a terminally-disposed transverselyextending portion termed a connecting-bar 9, which acts as abrace for the arms of the pin. The other depending portion terminates at a point adjacent to the juncture of the depending portion with the bar 9. By threading the clothes-line upon the pin, as illustrated, the pins can easily be moved to proper position on the line without any liability of becoming detached. The arms being in diverging relation to each other will hold the articles apart and the clamping effect exerted upon the garments will be positive owing to the fact that the depending members will slightly spring from the bonds of the arms.

By providing a pin in accordance with the herein-described invention the drying of the clothes will be easily provided for.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A clothes-pin formed of a single untwisted strand, said strand being bent approximately midway between its ends to form two diverging arms, ,each of said arms being of substantially triangular form and having the apex di rected upward, one of said triangular arms being open at the base and'the other having the base closed by an extension of the strand forming the clothes-pin, the end of the extension lying in contact with the bend connecting.

the two arms.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE BARLO\V SAW YERS.

Witnesses:

D. \N. MOREHOUSE, F. E. MoREHoUsE. 

